🛎️ A $3M guest tech boost, smart thermostats and TravelPerk’s bold rebrand

📈 A $3M boost for guest tech

SuiteOp secures $3 million in seed funding. They aim to simplify how hotels handle operations and guest experiences. The platform connects systems into one dashboard so hotel staff can manage daily tasks more easily.

The new funding will help grow the engineering team and expand into more independent hotels.

♟️ Expedia’s B2B travel tech strategy

While most eyes are on consumer bookings, Expedia is quietly expanding its B2B travel tech.

The company wants to become the infrastructure behind other brands bookings, offering everything from payment solutions to loyalty programs. 

The future for Expedia may look more like a quiet force behind the scenes.

💬 Choice Hotels CIO breaks down what’s next

Brian Kirkland shared how the company is rethinking hotel technology. From mobile check-in to better data tools for owners, the focus is on tools that actually make life easier.

Instead of chasing AI headlines, he’s focused on making sure systems work together behind the scenes.

A good reminder that sometimes boring tech is the best kind.

🌡️ This startup is heating up hotel tech

Anacove, a smart thermostat startup, just became the preferred partner for IHG hotels. The startup’s smart thermostats will now be used across a hotel portfolio with 110 properties, helping reduce energy use.

More control means less waste. For a product that rarely makes headlines, that’s a good hotel tech power move.

🤝 Vision Hospitality partners with Reeco

Reeco, an automation platform for procurement, is teaming up with Vision Hospitality Group to handle accounts payable across 42 hotels. The goal is to cut down on manual work and centralize vendor payments.

This move shows growing interest in simplifying hotel finance workflows.

With automation handling the admin, hotel teams can stay focused on operations. And hopefully, keep their inboxes a little lighter.

💰 Diamo wants to simplify hotel revenue

Diamo, a hotel revenue platform, just announced a fresh funding round of $4M to grow its team and accelerate product development.

The platform promises to make pricing and forecasting easier by using machine learning to support revenue managers.

With a focus on automation and data clarity, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel, just make it roll smoother.

💼 Booking a meeting room just got smarter

MeetingPackage and iVvy just announced a global partnership to simplify how hotels manage meetings and events.

The idea is to bridge the gap between online group booking tools and offline RFP workflows.

This move could help hotels capture more group business without adding complexity to their operations.